Too much, magic bus!
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51 or from being the travelling home of a hippie commune or the Jimi Hendrix tour bus, this quaint contraption belongs to a Phillipine community in Ashford. Fast Forward International of Sittingbourne was contracted to ship it to Geneva for a holiday exhibition and its boss, Cohn McKay, takes up the story. 'The vehicle is called a jeepne and these are commonly used as buses in the Phillipines." It seems that after the war, the resourceful Filipinos converted abandoned US jeeps into buses by stretching the chassis. They long ago ran out of military jeeps to convert but retained the design. The low interior is likely to cause a crooked neck for anyone taller than Little Jimmy Osmond while air conditioning is achieved by leaning out of the tiny windows and gasping: "You can't imagine driving these in a 90' tropical heat," says McKay, struggling to engage gear to reverse the multi-coloured roadshow into his warehouse...